for perspective this is the view with naked eye. amazing to think about these little guys floating around on the tide!
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for perspective this is the view with naked eye. amazing to think about these little guys floating around on the tide!
Four small seeds on white filter paper.
hello tiny seeds! left to right: Salicornia pacifica, Frankenia salina, Spergularia macrotheca, Spergularia marina.
Sitting here with friends, scheming to bring more beautiful things into the world.
I open bluesky, am met with more horror. Every day more horror.
On Sunday, I gave a talk to the scientists where I implored everyone to do *anything*.
It's easier to break than make things. Please make something.
Colleges' AI policies appear to be part of a broader effort to snatch away decision-making power over teaching, learning, and research from subject matter and pedagogy experts and give it to donors and administrators. defector.com/higher-eds-r...
writing a massive essay to my university for their AI use survey. it is so easy to write when I'm angry but so difficult for my thesis...
got to yap about marsh plants for like 4 hours today it was the best
attended a workshop by the ucsc library special collection dept and got to touch this ~4000 year old cuneiform tablet??!!!
the more I learn about herbaria the more it seems like everything is data science… is everything data science?
realizing i probably should have said taxon not taxa sorry everyone
got to do some destructive sampling from a rare taxa today!
As a final, final note: this change in policy is a disservice to all second-year graduate students and to the scientific community at large. Please reach out to grfp@nsf.gov to advocate for second year graduate students everywhere, and especially bridge program students!!
All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:
A German cover book for The Kosmos lecture at the Berliner Sing-Akademie, Alexander von Humboldt, Henriette Kohlrausch. In the middle there's an illustration of the solar system and the portraits of Humboldt and Kohlrausch.
Henriette Kohlrausch (1781 – 1842) was a German botanist and naturalist known for collaboration transcribing Alexander von Humbolt's Kosmos lectures.
She was also the lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Hanover, Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
#WomenInSTEM
pickleweed pals #greenhouse
this was our second event of this kind and I’m just so amazed at the turnout and enthusiasm from everyone— we don’t currently have enough work to justify doing it again but I really want to figure out ways to keep the momentum going
this past weekend we hosted a volunteer session at the herbarium where we had ~35 attendees, and got 231 specimens mounted in just 3.5 hours! couldn’t be more thankful for a great community!!
STEM people who think their work is apolitical are just people who like the current political context.
mounting today at the #herbarium 😁
today’s monotonous task was sorting stems
the lab is such a liminal space sometimes I just blink and 3 hours has gone by doing a monotonous task
Natural sciences/ecology friends, it's great that you want to add some social science/interdisciplinary work to your research.
But please learn how to do it before you start!
Among other issues, if you don't first get human subjects research ethics (IRB) approval, the work is unpublishable.
pickerelweed? i think i see violet flowers 😁
this is awesome!!
the other thing that actually makes me want to lose my mind is that this thing is writing 'scientific papers' -- like how is this not horrifying LOL
The AI Scientist team also adds that it had already said in its paper that, in general, The AI Scientist makes citation mistakes; that it should cite more related papers; and that researchers should validate the tool’s outputs themselves.
what kills me about this is that LLM ppl will always say "oh yeah i know it messes up and you should double check it" but then also in the same breath tell you use should use it for your academic research and lit review. NO!!!!! why isn't it being error-riddled enough to stop this?
Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily
You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.
In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!
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estuaries are at risk!!!! NOAA cuts result in complete elimination of funding for the NERRS system— this is the organization I do my research with. They’re SO SO IMPORTANT!!!!! please sign this letter of support and call your reps
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
studying non-native plants (or invasive— these terms are not identical!) can teach us a lot about how they adapt in their normal ranges, and how to protect our natives!
